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ABSTRACT -- There is a great interest in the time the scarcity of aggregates are also greatly
improvement, properties and implementation of increased nowadays.
alternatives to Portland cement as a binder in
concrete and also alternatives to fine and coarse Utilization of industrial soil waste or secondary
aggregates in concrete. To reduce the energy used materials has been encouraged in construction field
in production of Portland cement clinker and the for the production of cement and concrete because it
associated greenhouse gas emission. Magnesium contributes to reducing the consumption of natural
phosphate cements (MPCs) have been extensively resources. For many years, by products such as slag,
used as fast setting cements in civil engineering. silica fume and fly ash were considered as waste
They have properties that are also similar to materials. In the construction industry they have been
biomedical applications, such as fast setting and successfully used for partial or full replacement for
early strength. The cements were prepared by fine and coarse aggregates
mixing magnesium oxide (MgO) with either
sodium dihydrogen phosphate(NaH2PO4) or II. MATERIALS
ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (NH4H2PO4).
In this study, the effect of varying percentages of A. FLY ASH
fly ash with M-sand on compressive strength of
high performance concrete has been evaluated. All Fly ash is finely divided residue resulting from
the percentages have been studied in terms of the combustion of powdered coal and transported
compressive strength and flexural strength. by the flue gases and collected by electrostatic
precipitator.
Keywords Concrete, Magnesium phosphate Fly ash is the most widely used pozzolanic material
Cement, M- sand, fly ash. all over the world. Fly ash was first used in large
scale in the construction of Hungry Horse dam in
1. INTRODUCTION America in the approximate amount of 30 per cent by
weight of cement.
Concrete is a widely used construction material for The use of fly ash as concrete admixture not
various types of structures due to its durability. For a only extends technical advantages to the
long time it was considered to be very durable properties of concrete but also contributes to the
material requiring a little or no maintenance. Many environmental pollution control.
environmental phenomena are known significantly The fly ash can be used by two ways: one way is to
the durability of reinforced concrete structures. We intergrind certain percentage of fly ash with cement
build concrete structures in highly polluted urban and clinker at the factory to produce Portland pozzolana
industrial areas, aggressive marine environments and cement (PPC) and the second way is to use the fly
many other hostile conditions where other materials ash as an admixture at the time of making concrete at
of construction are found to be nondurable. In the the site of work
recent revision of IS:456-2000,one of the major ASTM broadly classifies fly ash into two classes.
points discussed is the durability aspects of concrete. Class F: Fly ash normally produced by burning
So the use of concrete is very essential. At the same anthracite or bituminous coal, usually has less than
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Components value
Components Value
Ordinary Portland cement 30 minutes
V. EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS
Table 6: Properties of coarse aggregate
Basic tests to find out the physical properties of
various ingredients in blended cement concrete have Property Coarse aggregate
been conducted to continue the thesis. The results of
the various tests are tabulated and the comparisons Specific gravity 2.75
are produced in graphical form in the following Density 1.58 g/cc
session.
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